Get out of here with this protest nonsense.
ARMED men should have showed up en masse to protect the southern statues and the confederate flag. And the Columbus statues.
Some Italian neighborhoods took patrols with baseball bats.
We’re WAY past protesting.
Nobody will care.
When a government has made up its mind, it’s time to dance..not carry posters with slogans.
Remember the MANY many millions who protested against bush attacking Iraq? How’d that pan out?
Just one example of many.
It’s past protest time.
We either act for real if biden gets in or we don’t.
Thank God we didn’t “protest” against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
When do those of us working and earning and raising kids have time to protest?
That is the advantage the left has —- lots of childless man-children with loads of free time on their hands.
It’s why I vote, and why we have been cheated out of its power.
I guess when we are all unemployed under leftist policies, we can protest then.
The universe actually prefers a vacuum. Even the densest material is mostly empty space.
The fact that most conservatives have jobs and responsibilities sort of makes it more difficult to show up. There is no conservative George Soros to pay the costs.
This is something I wrote about a year ago, but journalists know that protesting makes us more powerful than them.
They’ve written it. It’s not conjecture. Public meetings are superior to newspapers.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3808757/posts
“But for decades, we’ve had a cancer that looks down on the constitutionally required act of protesting, as if that’s just “a left wing thing”. This is a widespread viewpoint among Establishment Republican”
Oh, come on now, “we’re better than that”.
And, “we don’t want to sink to their level!”
I’m very much for vigorous protests but most people today are complacent, simply fail to see any need to protest, and believe protests are not going to change anything anyway. It’s like calling or writing elected officials. Most people are convinced it’s a waste of time and will accomplish nothing, especially if their representatives are already clearly on record in opposition to the position advocated by the protester or caller.
Another political strategy that was common for many years was pamphleteering.